Canary Foundation and the Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation Launch a New Lung Cancer Early Detection Initiative

... -- It is estimated more than 160000 Americans will die this year du... lung cancer -- -- More than 50% of new pat... according to the Lung Cancer Alliance -- ...NEW YORK Nov. 15 /- Canary Foundation a nonprofitorgan...

-- It is estimated more than 160,000 Americans will die this year due to

lung cancer --
-- More than 50% of new patients have either never smoked or quit smoking,

according to the Lung Cancer Alliance --

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Canary Foundation, a nonprofit
organization that funds research in early cancer detection, and The Thomas
G. Labrecque Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds lung cancer
research and awareness, jointly announced today that the Thomas G.
Labrecque Foundation has pledged $10 million to the Canary Foundation to
support a unique, new collaborative research program to save lives through
early detection of lung cancer. The new joint program, called Canary Lung,
is being announced today at a private event hosted by Mrs. Nelson
Rockefeller at her home in New York.

"The effect of lung cancer on Americans is simply staggering," said Mr.
David Rockefeller, an early supporter of Canary Lung. "I believe the
Labrecque and Canary Foundations, through Canary Lung, can have a dramatic
impact on this terrible disease."

"Cancer is still one of the greatest threats to our nation's families,"
said Don Listwin, founder and CEO of Canary Foundation. "But if detected
early, the survival rate for cancer patients is much higher. Canary
Foundation's overall strategy is to pursue short-term goals by funding
research that will lead to simple blood and imaging tests that can identify
and isolate cancers at their earliest points, when it is most treatable."

"Lung cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 15 percent,
is responsible for more deaths than breast, prostate, colorectal and
melanoma cancers combined," said Tom Labrecque Jr., President of the
Labrecque Foundation. "We knew the only way to change the five-year
survival rate was through early detection, and when we learned about Canary
Foundation's mission, its distinctive approach of building collaborative
teams consisting of the best and brightest researchers and clinicians from
across the country, and their results, we knew we had found the right
partner to advance our mission."

Institutions that will participate in Canary Lung will include the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center in New York, Stanford University in Palo Alto, and the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The Canary Science team
is headed by Dr. Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, Professor of Radiology &
Bioengineering and Director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford
University. "For the past 10 years, my research has focused on molecular
imaging with the goal of identifying cancer at its earliest stage
possible," said Dr. Gambhir. "We are honored to add this team of top
researchers to help those affected by lung cancer."

Background

Cancer strikes one in three women and one in two men in the United
States, and more than 570,000 die from it each year. But survival rates
improve dramatically when cancer is diagnosed early, and the disease is
confined to the organ of origin. For example, since 1950, there has been a
70 percent decline in cervical cancer incidence and deaths thanks to a
simple screening test, the Pap test. However, early detection diagnostic
tools do not exist for many cancers, and those that do exist are not
blood-based, such as the colonoscopy and mammogram.

About Canary Foundation

Canary Foundation is named after the "early detection" role canaries
once played by alerting coal miners of hazardous fumes. The Foundation is
the nation's only nonprofit organization devoted exclusively to the early
detection of cancer. All administrative and overhead costs are underwritten
by the Listwin Family Foundation, allowing 100 percent of contributions to
go entirely to early detection research activities.

Don Listwin founded Canary Foundation to address a notable lack of
balance in cancer research. While almost $10 billion is spent annually on
cancer research in the United States, the vast majority is allocated to
developing new cancer treatments and caring for patients. Surprisingly,
little funding is available to researchers investigating new ways to
prevent cancer, or to detect it at its earliest, curable stages. Canary
Foundation intends to affect this balance by increasing funding and by
facilitating coordination among researchers and research institutions.
Canary Foundation provides funding to researchers who are engaged in
developing cancer early detection technologies and protocols. Specifically,
Canary Foundation is supporting researchers working towards a standardized
family of biomarker signatures for the effective and accurate early
detection of all forms of cancer. For more information about the Canary
Foundation and its programs, please visit http://www.canaryfoundation.org.

About Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation

The Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation is committed to preventing lung
cancer through education and research. At the age of 62, Tom Labrecque, the
former Chairman of The Chase Manhattan Bank, a never-smoker, died from lung
cancer eight weeks after being diagnosed. Tom's family and friends started
the Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation in 2002 to fight the #1 cancer killer in
the United States. The Foundation has a two-pronged mission, to fund
effective research and to educate people about lung cancer. In the process
we want to break some of the stigmas associated with the disease, since
many people believe it is a smokers' disease. For more information about
the Thomas G. Labrecque Foundation, please visit
http://www.tglfoundation.com.

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